New York judge dismisses ex-president’s lawsuit Donald Trump filed against The New York Times and its journalists in 2021 for disclosing their tax return in a 2018 Times article.
Trump filed a lawsuit in 2021, accusing the newspaper of conspiring with his niece to improperly obtain his tax returns for a series of articles published in 2018.
In addition to suing the newspaper itself, Trump sues journalists responsible for investigating his tax returns.
The article’s three authors, journalists David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner, later won the award. Pulitzer Prize 2019 for the explanatory note to your article.
In his decision on Wednesday, New York State Supreme Court Justice Robert Reid considered that the paper’s investigations were explicitly protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.reports The New York Times.
The judge also ordered the former president to pay the defendants’ legal costs.
Judge Reid wrote, in his opinion, that Trump’s allegations were “unsound in terms of constitutional law.”
“Courts have long recognized that reporters have the right to engage in legitimate, ordinary news-gathering activities without fear of tort liability, since these activities are at the core of activities protected by the First Amendment,” Reid continued.
In a statement, New York Times spokesman Charlie Stadtlander said the Times was “pleased with the judge’s decision today.”
“This is an important precedent that reaffirms that the press is protected when it engages in routine news gathering to obtain information of vital importance to society.”
The former president faces a number of legal challenges in New York as a defendant.
On the one hand, there is the payment case against porn actress Stormy Daniels, which resulted in a grand jury indicting her for alleged illegal funding.
In addition, the former president faces a lawsuit for rape and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll.
Source: La Opinion
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